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Scots writer Norman Bissell has brought to life Orwell’s desperate struggle to get his masterpiece from mind to manuscript in a keenly-awaited new novel that takes its name from the Hebridean hideaway where it all came together.

Barnhill covers Orwell’s final years in London, Paris and Jura and the sacrifices he made — most tragically in terms of his health — as he created the dystopian world of Winston Smith and Julia, Big Brother and the Thought Police.